{"id":4469,"date":"2017-09-01T00:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T04:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2017-09-01T01:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T05:25:48","slug":"fishing-friday-last-chance-for-jersey-fluke-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2017\/09\/fishing-friday-last-chance-for-jersey-fluke-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Friday: Last Chance for Jersey Fluke This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A happy young fluke angler on board the Gambler. (Photo: Gambler Crew)<\/p><\/div>\n

New Jersey\u2019s fluke season will come to an end after the Labor Day holiday on Monday, making this weekend the last opportunity to catch a legal summer flounder until next spring.<\/p>\n

The best bet for a keeper this time of year will be in the ocean (or close to it, near the inlets), but make sure to check ocean conditions before venturing out. There will still be swells left over from the storm that moved by offshore over the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the fluke reports came from the inlet,\u201d the folks at Grumpy\u2019s Tackle in Seaside Park said.<\/p>\n

Fishing reports from the beach were sparse this week as lousy weather and rough surf kept anglers home. Fluke fishing was good in the ocean before the storms rolled through, according to the crew of the Gambler party boat out of Point Pleasant Beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of action on fluke with a fair amount of keepers,\u201d a report said, noting pool winners have been 4-to-6 pounds most trips. Ralph Rivera caught a big one last Saturday\u2013 nearly 9-pounds!<\/p>\n

At The Dock Outfitters in Seaside Heights: \u201cThe back bay remains the spot generating all the fishing reports in our area,\u201d a report said.<\/p>\n

Bluefish are being hooked in the 7-10-pound range are being caught on poppers and cut bait along the eastern shore (island side) of the bay, from the Dock\u2019s own pier outside to the shop, all the way down to the flats behind Island Beach State Park. Blues have remained plentiful all summer and there are no signs of them stopping.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking to go crabbing, have a backup plan that includes the local fish market. Crabbing has been quite slow up and down the bay this season, and there hasn\u2019t been much in the way of improvement reported over the past week.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have a followup fishing report after we hear from the shops and boats out on Friday.<\/p>\n

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New Jersey\u2019s fluke season will come to an end after the Labor Day holiday on Monday, making this weekend the last opportunity to catch a legal summer flounder until next spring. The best bet for a keeper this time of year will be in the ocean (or close to it, near the inlets), but make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-01-at-1.24.37-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}